Poverty Point

U.S. National Park Service

U.S. National Park Service

Poverty Point State Historic Site (French: Pointe de Pauvreté; 16 WC 5) is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty Point culture.

Poverty Point World Heritage Site is a story 3,400 years in the making. A trading hub, an engineering marvel, a monument to ingenuity—there are many ways to describe Poverty Point.

Poverty Point National Monument: Poverty Point National Monument, site of a prehistoric Native American city, located in northeastern Louisiana, U.S., about 50 miles (80 km) east of Monroe. Designated a national historic landmark in 1962 and authorized as a national monument in 1988, it is managed by the state of Louisiana as

Visitors can explore an array of earthen mounds and ridges at this World Heritage Site, highlighting a culture from more than 3,000 years ago.

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Poverty Point National Monument tells the story of America’s oldest city located in Louisiana. Its preservation is dedicated to remembering its importance to...

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Poverty Point National Monument tells the story of America’s oldest city located in Louisiana. Its preservation is dedicated to remembering its importance to Native American and United States pre-history. Now a nearly forgotten culture, Poverty Point, at its peak 3,000 years ago, was part of an enormous trading network that stretched for hundreds of miles across the continent. It’s an engineering marvel, and the product of five million hours of labor. Explore the culture of a highly sophisticated people who left behind one of North America’s most important archeological sites.

Historic Site in Northern Louisiana

From the World Heritage inscription for the Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point